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showed almost exactly the same pattern of very recent decline, and indeed a reduction in contraceptive use. The two surveys …
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as well as the overall economy of Djibouti. A comparative approach of two surveys carried out in 1980 (PECTA) and 2001 …
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This paper proposes a measure of real-time inflation expectations based on metadata, i.e., data about data, constructed from internet search queries performed on the search engine Google. The forecasting performance of the Google Inflation Search Index (GISI) is assessed relative to 37 other...
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This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them … macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16 sentiment surveys of distinct respondent universes and employ the technique of … principal components analysis to extract the common signals from the surveys. I show that the ability of different population …
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This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them … macroeconomic and financial data. I examine 16 sentiment surveys of distinct respondent universes and employ the technique of … principal components analysis to extract the common signals from the surveys. I show that the ability of different population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009647399
For decades, the academic literature has focused on three survey measures of expected inflation: the Livingston Survey, the Survey of Professional Forecasters, and the Michigan Survey. While these measures have been useful in developing models of forecasting inflation, the data are low frequency...
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Michigan Surveys of Consumers. While these measures have been useful in developing models of forecasting inflation, the data …
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then examine citations to Estimating nonresponse bias in mail surveys, one of the most frequently cited papers from the … Journal of Marketing Research, as an exploratory study to illustrate these issues. This paper is especially useful in testing … survey research fail to cite this paper and, presumably, make inadequate adjustments for nonresponse bias. Furthermore, even …
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This paper examines the relative reliability of alternative measures of employment around business cycle turning points, with particular focus on the behavior of the series at the critical business cycle phase of early expansion phase following a recession. Historical evidence shows that the...
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economic processes. By way of example we show how research subsidies by the government influence the likelihood that a regional …
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